Ogden Fire Department

OGDEN — The Ogden City Fire Department promoted Eric Bauman and Matt Schwenk to deputy chief this week, filling vacancies left by retirement.

Bauman has 18 years of experience, most spent as a firefighter-paramedic. He also spent 12 years as a flight paramedic for Air-Med and has been a faculty instructor at Weber State University, teaching emergency care and rescue courses.

OGDEN -- The small oil spill in the Ogden River is now gone, according to the Weber-Morgan Health Department.

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OGDEN -- Rescue workers were at the scene of a multivehicle accident late Monday afternoon at 12th Street and Harrison Boulevard.

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ROY — The smell of smoke hung heavy in the air as shell-shocked residents at Northpoint Condominiums returned home Tuesday to collect whatever they could salvage a day after a devastating fire.

The fire, reported Monday around 4:15 p.m., began in Unit No. 50 and spread to the 11 other units in the building at 4642 S. 1900 West, sending residents scurrying for safety. Thirty residents have been displaced, and most are staying with family and friends, authorities said.

Whitney Berchtold was asleep in Unit No. 44 in the Northpoint Condominiums building when she was awakened by the smell of smoke.

OGDEN — A Morgan County sheriff’s deputy was in the right place at the right time when a fire broke out Tuesday morning at an Ogden duplex.

Deputy Rob Taylor dropped off a prisoner at Weber County Jail on 12th Street and went to A-1 Uniforms at 134 31st St. to pick up a couple of shirts

After leaving A-1 Uniforms around 10:45 a.m., Taylor noticed smoke billowing from a duplex at 146 E. 30th St.

OGDEN — A fire early this morning caused heavy damage to an apartment unit but no injuries. 

OGDEN -- David Hooper lost his parents and brothers to a fire and moved to Utah to get away from those memories.